Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated yield that would be generated if the entry threshold for persons to access social insurance coverage increased for €38 per week to €95 per week. [46276/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Any increase in the entry threshold for persons to access social insurance coverage from the current employee earnings level of €38 per week would lead to a reduction in the social insurance contribution yield. It is estimated that there would be a loss of approximately €7 million to the Social Insurance Fund if the entry threshold for persons to access social insurance coverage increased from €38 per week to €95 per week.

This initial reduction in income would, in time, be offset by reduced expenditure on short-term social insurance benefit schemes as those earning below the new threshold would not establish entitlement to these benefits.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.